We have a pet orangutan; she wanders the house and speaks to us in Sign. One evening, the orangutan tells us that she is pregnant and she dives into the swimming pool. We watch her for a bit, waiting for something to happen. The whole thing makes us very nervous. After a while, the orangutan gets back out of the water and sits down, panting heavily. After a few moments, she delivers the brain; then the baby orangutan. She feeds the brain through the baby’s ear and then proceeds to nurse.
Two-thirds of the beds are built; and the beets, carrots, onions, and peas are planted. Garden on.
Over the past couple weeks and months I have reached that stage and am now laboring over the decision to upgrade to a DSLR camera. It’s mostly (as a I admitted to one friend) “lens lust” but there’s also an amateur artistic element to it. I’m looking for some more control over the pictures (i.e., the aperture size and shutter speed) and I believe I have taken my point-and-shoot about as far as it can go. Then I came across this quote (via DF) which helped to capsulize it:
Christ on a bike what a difference. I feel like someone handed a slice of hot toast spread with cultured butter after a lifetime breakfasting on Skittles and government cheese. I mean, it does what I want it to! It autofocuses in less time than it takes my eyes to imagine what a proper focus would be! You can take pictures in tungsten light without tacking a fucking white card to the wall and metering fifteen times! You push the button and it takes a fucking picture! I am in consumer ecstasy! I am in consumer ecstasy! NyQuil! Advil! Malt liquor!
Begging the question: if a DSLR also happens to be the best point-and-shoot then why am I wasting my time on the point-and-shoot?
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“Freeware stopwatch, alarm clock and countdown utility for Mac” (Sweet! Now I don’t need to buy an egg timer…)
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via Orion magazine
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via PCPhoto Magazine (via kheiligh - thanks!)
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via Ecstatic Days :: I’ve seen this before… but it’s funny every time
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via OMNIVORACIOUS
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via B^2
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via LifeHacker :: (Windows-only…?)
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via LifeHacker
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@B^2
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via Slashdot :: looks like an interesting review of a book about the use of Second Person narrative (esp. w/r/t/ games and gaming)
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via OMNIVORACIOUS :: noted: still need to add the Del Ray book to GoodReads.com (it’s not there yet…)
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via LifeHacker
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via Writing Forward :: a potentially interesting writing exercise
